ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,750, issued on July 14, was assigned to VMware Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"System and method for analyzing resource elasticity profiles of computing environments" was invented by Bharath Siddapur Hemashekar (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Vaishnavi Manjunath (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and computer-implemented method for analyzing software-defined data centers (SDDCs) uses resource utilization metrics for an SDDC to determine a plurality of scale-in and scale-out events in the SDDC for a period of time using a particular combination of resource scale-in and scale-out thresholds defined and to compute a total c...